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Promoting the Right to Housing at the EU level: challenges and policy proposals

Promoting the Right to Housing at the EU level: challenges and policy proposals

What supra-national institutional tools and frameworks are required to tackle the housing problems experienced in European cities?

PERFORMED ACTIVITY

5 March 2019 - 09:00h

LOCATION: CIDOB, sala Jordi Maragall, Elisabets 12,08001 Barcelona

ORGANIZED BY: CIDOB and UCLG with the support of the Barcelona City Council

COLLABORATORS (2):

Objective

In the face of pressing urban housing challenges across the globe, a “Municipalist Declaration of Local Governments for the Right to Housing and the Right to the City”, entitled “Cities for Adequate Housing”, was presented at the High Level Political Forum that took place at the United Nations (UN) in New York in July 2018. The Declaration, which demands more resources and competences for cities to provide adequate housing for their citizens, was signed by dozens of cities from different continents and is continuing to receive new endorsements.

This policy-oriented seminar will examine how to operationalize the Declaration in the context of the European Union (EU). Bringing together experts, practitioners and policy-makers, the objective is to discuss how the general demands outlined in the Declaration can be translated into more concrete regulatory and policy proposals and practices at EU level. The seminar forms part of a wider process of developing and adapting the Declaration to the regional level. What supra-national institutional tools and frameworks are required to tackle the housing problems experienced in European cities?

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09:00h Opening

09:30h What changes in the EU framework could enable cities to better regulate the real-estate market?

This session will focus on both “hard law” and “soft law” measures and on the institutional configuration of the principle of subsidiarity, so that municipal governments can employ the necessary instruments to guarantee the social function of the city, from rent controls to regulations tackling the non-residential uses of housing units, amongst others.

Moderator:Amanda Flety, Coordinator, Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights, Secretariat of the UCLG

Debate between participants

11:00h Coffee Break

11:30h How could the EU help provide more funds and tools for public and affordable housing?

This session will focus on the institutional, fiscal and financial mechanisms required to strenghthen the european public housing stock, as well as to promote limited-profit and non-profit operators and community-driven alternative housing.

First Interventions:

Susanne Bauer, Senior Housing Researcher, City of Vienna; Chair, Eurocities Working Group on Housing

Ruth Owen,Policy Coordinator, European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA)